Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation (“With Twitter as his Excalibur, the president takes on his doubters, powered by long spells of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if Mr. Trump has yet to bend the presidency to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.”)

Virginia’s $40 Toll Road Better Be the Future of Driving (“The nice thing about congestion charges isn’t just that they can encourage people to take public transit, or at least to carpool, but that they make drivers pay for their role in creating traffic and spewing greenhouse gases. Forty bucks is a lot for a toll, but it just might be the fair price for the right to drive by yourself down a majorly busy highway. The scourge we know as traffic costs the American economy about $125 billion to traffic per year, according to traffic analytics company Inrix.”)

New delegates push for more transparency, stronger FOIA laws in Virginia (“Advocates say the state’s public-records law has too many exemptions and charges far too much.” “In Fairfax, Benjamin Tribbett, a former chief of staff to Supervisor Kathy Smith (D-Chantilly), said a county attorney once told new employees during a training session to regularly delete emails and explained how communications that include the county attorney’s office fall under attorney-client privilege and would not be subject to disclosure.”)